Quote:however the English after the Norman Conquest certainly did.
The peasantry or the nobility? Peasants were not terribly effective soldiers. This isn't Hollywood where a guy with a stick knocks a trained knight off his horse.
Quote:I am not sure about the Egyptians in the Hellenistic period,
Egypt had been overrun by so many different conquerors in the first millenium BC that another one was nothing new. The Greeks were the latest in the line of Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians, and Persians and the Babylonians tried like hell but didn't quite make it.